Psychotherapies Flashcards
Who is psychoanalysis not indicated for?
people who have problems with reality testing such as psychotic patients or people with severe cluster A and B personality disorders
When does Id present? Ego? Superego?
Id presents at birth, ego develops after birth, superego development begins at age 6
is the aspect of one’s psyche that represents “morality, society and parental teaching” according to freud
superego
unconscious, involves instinctual sexual/aggressive urges and primary process thinking
Id
serves as a mediator between the id and external environment and seeks to develop satisfying interpersonal relationships; uses defense mechanisms to control instinctual urges and distinguishes fantasy from reality using reality testing.
ego
Moral Conscience
superego
A patient’s child recently died from ovarian cancer. as part of the grieving process, the patient donates money to help raise community awareness about the symptoms of ovarian cancer so other patients could potentially benefit from early intervention
Altruism
Expressing unpleasant or uncomfortable feeling without causing discomfort to self or tohers
humor
satisfying soically objectionable impulses in an acceptable manner (person with unconscious urges to physically control people becomes a prison guard)
sublimation
Student who is angry at his mother talks back to his teacher the next day and refuses to obey her instructions
displacement
physician dying from colon cancer describes the pathophysiology of his disease in detail to his 12 year old son
intellectualization
women describes the recent death of her beloved husband without emotion
isolation of affect
my boss fired me today because shes short tempered and impulsive, not because i have not done a good job
rationalization
man who is in love with his married coworker insults her
reaction formation
preventing a thought or feeling from entering consciousness
repression ( this is unconscious, whereas suppression is a consicous act0
giving in to an impulse, even if socially inappropriate, in order to avoid the anxiety of suppressing the impulse (i.e man who has been told his therapist is going on vacation “forgets” his last appointment and skips it
acting out
not accepting reality that is too painful
denial
women brings her childhood teddy bear to the hospital when she has to spend the night
regression (performing behaviors from an earlier stage of development in order to avoid tension assoicated with current phase of development
husband who is attracted to other women believes his wife is cheating on him
projection ( attributing objectionable thoughts or emotions to others)
projection of unconscious feelings about important figures in the patient’s life onto the therapist (i.e patient who has repressed feeling of abandonment by her father becomes angry when her therapist is late for an appointment)
transference
a stimulus can eventually evoke a conditioned resonse
classical conditioning (pavlov’s dogs)
behaviors can be learned when followed by positive or negative reinforcement
operant conditioning
giving a reward for a desired behavior
positive reinforcement
encouraging a behavior by removing an aversive stimulus
negative reinforcement (punishment is NOT negative reinforcement)
